Fort Lawton doesn't exist anymore – not as an Army base and not in historic memory, unless you come across “On American Soil” by Jack Hamann (University of Washington Press, 2007). In 1944, 43 Black…
Posts published by “Fred Gardner”
Those who tend to apologize too much when they make a mistake have a lot to learn from the editors of the San Francisco Chronicle. It was the Chronicle that gave the world its false…
A few weeks ago a NY Times reporter named Matt Flegenheimer asked me to reminisce about being District Attorney Terence Hallinan’s press secretary in the year 2000, when Kamala Harris and Kimberly Guilfoyle were both…
In advance Tuesday night's debate, the New York Times featured a “guest essay” by Donna Brazile in support of Kamala Harris. Brazile has the same Teflon coating that protected Judge Judy (AIDS patients “should just…
That's what freethinkers say when asked to swear to God, as I was asked in a Chicago courtroom in December 1969. I testified that Tom Hayden told me one night during the 1968 Democratic Convention…
Why did Kamala Harris refuse Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s request for a meeting? He was hoping for a role in her administration. Why didn't she grant him the courtesy of a meeting? Her disrespect was felt…
In 1968 my stock in peace movement circles was very high, due to the “success” of the first GI coffeehouses. In late February or early March I got a call from Tom Hayden, who hadn't…
The first edition of Christina Stead's 795-page novel, ‘House of All Nations,’ published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1938, did not sell out. It was reissued in ’66, in anticipation of a Christina Stead…
Marijuana was for sale at the California State Fair this year — a historic first that drew camerapersons from Reuters and two other news outlets. On Friday, July 12, Dale Gieringer, the longtime director of…